olympic torch relay. the. international diplomatic leader in geneva hoping to hammer out an historic deal on iran's nuclear program with tehran. ukraine's opposition is fanning the flames of discontent i'm happy with the government's move to. integration. also cracking down on me and as washington considers slapping on a price for protest by america's all powerful oil lobby. on the rules it's ok to sell weapons to gulf regimes despite their poor human rights records.

from a studio central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day the world's political elite have descended on geneva amid cautious hopes a deal can be reached with iran over its uranium enrichment program upon his arrival a few hours ago russia's foreign minister met with his reigning counterpart straightaway optimism about the potential agreement is evenly divided between the six countries participating in the talks which have now entered their third day well. is joining us live now from geneva to bring us the latest so is there a feeling probably that a breakthrough could be reached this time. bill talks terror in full swing at the moment as you said there's been a flurry of activity since russia's sergey lavrov jetted into geneva he's already met with his iranian counterpart and he said to be meeting with top diplomats

catherine ashton soon as well now despite this a number of sticking points still remain here that it's still going to be hammered out if this deal is going to be made now we know that iran's foreign minister has already said that unless the world's power is publicly recognize your loans right to uranium enrichment he's not signing a deal here and we know that coming into these negotiations iran has already made a number of concessions according to reports they've already agreed to stop enriching uranium to over five percent they've agreed to dispose of anything that's already been enriched to over five percent already and they've also spoken about not using advanced centrifuges anymore but what are they getting in return well the u.s. and the e.u. have agreed to a limited relief on economic sanctions against iran that would only take place six

months offshore a deal here is hum a doubt that's if they ever get to hammering out that deal so there's still a lot of positions that need to be reconciled and we're talking about potentially hammering out a deal of we're going to be easing sanctions against iran at the same time over in the u.s. we've got a hard line is in congress talking about potentially ratcheting up more sanctions against iran so a lot of work still to be done if that gap is going to be bridged by all the science there's talk of john kerry jetting in by the morning that's not confirmed yet but they're all talks over it and we're going to be covering how these negotiations are progressing throughout the night and into the morning so stay tuned we're going to see if they can hammer out that historic deal that will bring an end to a decade. it's all political wrangling over iran's nuclear program or twenty which wait and see that light in geneva let's not go to greg thielmann he's a senior fellow at the arms control association and an expert in nuclear

proliferation for more on this joining us from the states right do you think there is a chance a deal could be struck you know. i think there's a real chance of a deal being struck at this point it's still uncertain we might in the week end with the dramatic announcement that we might in the weekend with some differences still to be to be bridged but we're at a very encouraging place looking at this long thirty five year record of deep mistrust between iran and many of its negotiating partners do you think we could see a compromise from international community where iran could be allowed to enrich uranium at some sort of level i think almost any conceivable agreement here that is that any agreement that is likely in the real world will include the expectation that iran would continue enriching in some form now it's

really up to the negotiators how they. articulate that in some sort of textual form in agreement the iranians will certainly insist that the n.p.t. gives them an inalienable right to enrich uranium the other partners one way or another will emphasize that such rights are very much conditional on a country's strict adherence to all of the all of the. safeguards that the. the nuclear nonproliferation treaty requires of its partners but whether or not no matter how that language is expressed in the text the point will be will iran. be allowed to continue enriching uranium in some amounts or to some level or not and i think the answer is almost certainly yes it will and of course some countries are saying you shouldn't have a nuclear program a tool but if there is

a deal reached what's iran it should be can they gain from it apart from being allowed probably to continue with its nuclear program what are the other benefits because it's obviously being offering very positive gestures to the international community. i think iran will benefit in a number of ways first there is there is. going to be financial benefits it's not going to be the core element of the sanctions but there's going to be real money that is is going to be released there is going to be spare parts which are very much needed in the. in the aeronautical sector of iran for safe air transport there are petroleum and gold sanctions that are talked about here there will be some real though marginal. benefits right away to iran from this agreement but the most important thing is by. drawing the outlines

of an old framework agreement iran is already. being given. legitimacy stand for its nuclear program in a way that it sought for a very long time. the conclusion of any kind of agreement along this. along these lines will. reaffirm the continued iranian enrichment of uranium is going to be tolerated by other countries and very much. the first step toward an older man a removal of all the crippling sanctions that are now in place will be visible greg thanks so much for this. great film live there from washington we welcome. the ukrainian opposition is bearing its teeth threatening president viktor yanukovych for the impeachment and found to bring tens of thousands of people onto

the streets by the weekend all that often the government suspended work towards a free trade deal with the e.u. and some protests are already taking place. reports some part of the ukrainian society have had a very bitter reaction to the news that the country would not be signing the e.u. association deal next week protests have been taking place all over ukraine since last night you are now witnessing one of them central independence square to protest this day planning to stage their rallies at least until sunday and that's when we're expecting more than seventy thousand people to hit the streets so this is one part of the greatest site if you reacted by unocal which decision the other party which also includes prominent political analysts and. in the political sphere they have been saying that ukraine by not signing this agreement may have in fact a bullet some of these statements some of these comments and emotions i've compiled in my report two months ago it was talented as a done deal on thursday ukraine's government all but completely ruled out that in

a so. agreeing with you you would be signed next week instead we're going to trade ties with russia and c.i.s. was made the priority of. some stage of ascending to the top and the weather is unfavorable. there one hundred eighty degree turn around comes after months of openly voiced concerns that ukraine's economy would simply collapse if it forms a free trade zone with the e.u. which in turn promised no compensations on potential losses think it is a lucky escape really because i think that this deal was bad news for the ukraine it would be like somebody today going back in time to nine hundred twelve and buying a ticket for the titanic it would have been a national suicide for the ukrainian government to sign this just a few days before the move moody's downgraded ukraine's economic index to a breeder fault level that led the government to openly admitting that the already ailing economy was not ready for a leap of faith. we haven't gotten the clear signal from our european neighbors that the losses which we had suffered in the last four months will be compensated

by entry new markets and european markets we will need to hold the work of a dozen of our enterprises but our country can't afford firing tens of thousands of workers alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. whose blackmailing whom president vladimir putin is address recent allegations that russia forced ukraine into the u.-turn. in some petersburg and she's been listening to what the russian leader had to say. turkish prime minister erdogan is here meeting with president putin they had a joint press conference where the ukraine issued actually did come up in one of the questions mr putin was actually asked about allegations that came out in reports earlier on friday suggesting that the ukrainian president had spoken to his counterpart his lithuanian counterpart in a phone call in a which he brought moscow pressure on the ukraine to scrap plans for participation in this trade pact here's that mr putin responded to

a question about that let's take a listen. i don't know what the ukrainian president was talking about with his lithuanian counterpart maybe we should merican friends about it but so far they haven't told us anything now he was of course joking but what he was referencing there is the u.s. national security agency spy scandal where the agency had been accused of wiretapping the phone calls of various e.u. leaders on a more serious note however mr putin lashed out at the european union suggesting that it's the e.u. in fact that's blackmailing and pressuring ukraine in regards to this deal let's take a listen. when i. found out yesterday that ukraine has suspended not cancelled but suspended negotiations with the e.u. he wants to review everything. from ukraine all the way up to organizing mass protests this is pressure. sticking with the ukraine and the european

union mr putin had actually referenced turkey is a longstanding bid for membership in the european union which hasn't been successful to date fifty year process he said he turned to mr aragon and jokingly basically said that he wanted to get mr erno guns input on this since the country had tried for so long to enter the european union mr aragon had entered that yes this is a fifty year old request in that he wanted to answer with his own request asking for a russian to take sharky into the shanghai organization for quite cooperation part and that's of course the six party. that russia is a part of with several other countries essentially jokingly making a statement about turkey is an inability so far to join the e.u. we spoke to john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation who explained how he believes the e.u. pushes its own agenda east towards the e.u. as conceived this agreement like all the other agreements that it tries to time

with european states as a geo political project very important to understand that in the midst of all these accusations against russia it's actually the e.u. which sees it with expansion as a little girl and indeed an ideological project we saw this back in september when media which of course in comparison to ukraine is a tiny country signed up to the customs union with russia and immediately brussels said. that any any possibility of it signing an association agreement with the e.u. was off the tables you made it clear that you either had to side of the e.u. agreement or you had to sign the russian. a report from british m.p.'s has concluded that saudi arabia's notoriously bad human rights record is no reason to stop sending billions of pounds and weapons to the kingdom campaigners of accuse a government of pandering to despotic regimes in return for profit will smith has more on the controversy of the report it points out the ethical dilemma of the u.k.

having this close relationship with bahrain and saudi arabia who obviously have such poor human rights records but it is the most important thing is that the government finds new ways of selling that relationship to the public essentially explaining its approach to the british public and not necessarily doing anything about. it for example the committee says that there's there are concerns about juggling human rights with these lucrative trade deals. recognizes that saudi arabia's role as a key purchaser of arms from the u.k. is quote controversial but it says it all balance there's no point in ending that relationship it wouldn't have any purpose at all now the campaign against the arms trade is not impressed with that excuses the foreign affairs committee is providing cover basically for the government says it continues to pander to despicable

regimes in the service of arms contracts particularly for. manufacturers so basically what this report is doing is recognizing the hypocrisy but not doing anything about it. representative the campaign against arms trade told us why exactly the group believes the report is misguided. there is a wrong. by the british government because it is always say we've got to understand the saudis with. try to understand that point of view we will have influence over them if we take the extra steps if we sell weapons if we try to foster good relationships we say that that's just the wrong way around you should put human rights human rights the saudis human rights so expect trip workers in saudi arabia of course in bahrain as well they should be at the center of u.k. government policy it shouldn't be about selling arms it should be about supporting

the human rights and that's the problem with this report human rights takes very much a second place to commercial interests and particularly to the interests of the big companies more news coming away in just a few moments in the twenty four hours a day live from moscow. this is a media leader so we need to be. part of the scene bush and secure the other party there's a goal. is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. are. killing the killer though if you. consider. cheats to get. to.

choose the stories but if you. choose access to. feel like protesting at a fracking side to a little set you back five thousand dollars if new u.s. legislation becomes lol the pay to protest bill courtesy of the oil lobby has already been passed by the house of representatives but that's just off of it as.

reports. the house of representatives decided first amendment does not apply when oil and gas industries are concerned they passed a bill this week that imposes a five thousand dollars fee for anyone wishing to file an official protest against the proposed drilling project there are protests going on across the nation against hydraulic fracking for instance there have been over a thousand documented cases of water contamination so people are naturally concerned but the same bill that establishes a fine for protesting against drilling would also allow for automatic approval of on shore drilling permits so the house of representatives is doing a huge favors to all powerful oil and gas industries they did not just pass one legislation they passed another bill this week that would put more authority of hydraulic fracking in the hands of states that way the department of interior would have no authority over whether companies disclose what chemicals they use in the fracking fluid whether water from franked wells is polluted or whether anyone can

request public hearings regarding fracking permits permit applications needless to say that the fracking industry's contributions into congressional campaigns have quadrupled since two thousand and four these two bills still have to pass the democratic controlled senate even if they pass president obama has indicated he would veto the legislation should he get that far but will he actually do it. europe over has elected to go in the opposite direction when it comes to the fuel aside from forcing fracking companies to file damage reports your accounts are looking at more ways to regulate the industry so why is there so much ill will towards fracking well to understand you've got to know how it works well first off a hole is drilled deep into the earth a cocktail of water and toxins that then pumped in to literally dissolve rocks and release gas molecules and that's where the trouble begins dangerous toxins some of which radioactive often contaminate local water supplies up to seventy percent of

fracking fluids also seep into the soil around the bore remaining a hazard for decades above ground the process releases vast quantities of greenhouse gases that are all but impossible to keep in check. president hamid karzai has firmly rejected u.s. calls to immediately sign an agreement that would allow american troops to stay in afghanistan after twenty fourteen he says the deal should be ratified only after presidential elections in the middle of next year a view that clashes with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry who's called for it to be pushed through as quickly as possible now an annual meeting of afghan elders is currently debating whether to support the accord antiwar activists brian becker i spoke to him earlier he says the afghanistan president is in a very delicate position. karzai is worried of course that he owes his existence to the presence of the american forces that have kept him in power and yet at the same time he knows that millions of afghans resent our angry

indignation about the fact of the united states government has run roughshod over their country for the last twelve years what the united states is proposing is that the united states will maintain military bases and soldiers in afghanistan for a quarter of a century twenty twenty four is almost a quarter of a century after the two thousand and one invasion this is a clear instance of a colonial relationship where the united states invades an occupies a country uses various pretexts and then maintains military bases so that ultimately whoever is the government after karzai the us will be the determine or the real power in afghanistan when it comes to sharing you might want to think twice before you do this in saudi arabia a pair of free hugs campaigners of the arrested. police classify their actions as exotic practices that do more harm than good you can find out the details and calm right now. the hard melting way to save the endangered population of.

russian scientists plan to make a grizzly mother of snow going to come that's all online right now. the mayor of the israeli city of nazareth elite was recently voted back into power on a promise to keep the city jewish and limit the growth of the arab population and this in a diverse electorate of jews christians and arabs port aslan i reports he's refusing to back down. what my goal is to have as few arabs as possible blunt direct and a virtually racist shit from a shop or ninety five percent of mayors think the same but only five percent will say it to the media i'm sorry i'm the only one who does so by have to stay true to what i believe should one capsule has never shied away from controversy the mayor of nazareth elite is known for building neighborhoods for jewish citizens only banning christmas trees from schools and boasting that he's stopped the arab

population in the city from growing among his friends he comes prime minister benjamin netanyahu and now he's just been reelected for another term in office if you notice israel is first a jewish state and then a democracy the same goes for nazareth illit anyone can live here if they think there will ever be a churchill mosque they can keep on dreaming but nazareth elite is in fact an ethnically mixed city one in five of its residents is arab it borders the biblical and much larger nazareth often called the arab capital of israel out of entry and go to arabs from him as a ref and other villagers come here to get away from their crowded areas and improve their living standards. stay we was born here he's been trying to get an arab school bus in the city but it's not going to happen on this mayor's watch in this country when they get to the power to think if they go extreme right.

if he becomes more racist then he will have more people to vote for him to claim make cheviot finkelstein angry she supports cap so and says their desire to live in a jewish city is what the country's founding fathers in visaged visit russia go wild in the thick of it he is what is keeping me here because i know that if it wasn't for him we would lose our home this is without a doubt a war of existence recent municipal elections or gap so reelected with fifty two percent of votes. posters promise to jewish city forever gap says election campaign was soaked with racist undertones which many fear are now dangerously close to entering israeli political mainstream the most disturbing aspect he takes pride in us in a way a microcosm of israel the city's battle to preserve its jewish identity is infused with history religion and discrimination depending which side you're on policy r.t.

nazareth the elite northern israel. time now has more global headlines the ten year old boys reportedly been killed in egypt supporters and opponents of the muslim brotherhood in the else to president mohamed morsi clashed in the capitol police forces and a fiend into the air and sharing the crowds with tear gas canisters a protest marking one hundred days since security forces cleared a major city of morsy supporters encouraged killing up to five hundred people. at least fifty people reportedly been killed after a supermarket collapsed in the libyan capital dozens more were also injured the mayor reagor has said thirty people could still be trapped under the rubble investigation has been launched into what caused the building to crumble at the top politicians blame failures to meet building standards. also this thousands of people are continuing a general strike in tripoli demanding all militia groups leave the libyan capital

the head of the local council has said the city will not work until they go three protesters were killed a week ago as they demonstrated outside the headquarters of one armed group in tripoli which opened fire on the crowd. more news with me in the team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime larry king talks to the legendary american journalist bob woodward about the obama administration. there's now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness what a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for

americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and they are able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project is that they're actually doing something against the evil system instead of just blogging about it and all the fifteen million dollars is a time a need to drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of many americans but that's just my opinion.

one of the most celebrated investigative journalists of our time bob woodward of the washington post reported on every president since nixon in. he's the author or co-author of a dozen number one best selling nonfiction book. considering what he's covered over the years it's appropriate that he joins me at the historic day adams otel overlooking the white house on next politicking. it's always great to go back to washington especially on a lovely day like today and especially to be with an old friend like bob woodward the pulitzer prize winning journalist work for the washington post since one thousand nine hundred seventy one currently is associate editor author a co-author of twelve number one national best selling nonfiction books most

recently the price of politics that is out in paperback with the many of them that is star ok i don't sotelo cate across from the white house the executive office buildings all of it as the white house president obama and his family say they have the two weeks prior to his first inauguration the president is approaching the end of his fifth year in office community says when obama at five well george will the columnist said obama's head the worst first year of the second term since nixon i think that's. overstatement but obama's having trouble now and certainly with obamacare it's not just that the technical website issue it's is it going to work what does it mean to people and whenever there's a change like this a change i think is wise i think people should have health insurance and what the going to make it function for millions of people like they promised we were

going to see any second terms the when he said in terms get off well. and good question i mean the generally is a bump in the road. but if you look at the world right now i think the world is such a dangerous place all of the if you go from north korea down to libya in egypt and ask questions of china and russia one of the cia people came over recently and said the fuse of instability is lit in about a dozen countries whether it's going to go off this week or tomorrow or five years from now or ever we don't know but just the level of instability these countries that are unhappy with so that that's in addition to all the domestic problems what keeps you going to bother me you're very success.